Blogs

Eduardo P. García | Oct 20, 2014 9:38 AM

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not...

Meera Prince | Oct 19, 2014 5:48 AM

Liferay have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles. The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles ...

Zeno Rocha | Oct 15, 2014 6:37 PM

Our latest official release (2.5.0) made in April introduced a lot improvements in terms of documentation and bug fixes . Since then we made public some few preview releases in June and July. ...

Fady Hakim | Oct 15, 2014 4:28 PM

In this blog I will show an example on how we can integrate external applications/services inside your liferay portal. In my example I created 2 portlets that you can use to integrate amazon search...

Richard Sezov | Oct 14, 2014 9:23 PM

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this...

Olaf Kock | Oct 13, 2014 8:16 PM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. While this is great for a...

Fady Hakim | Oct 11, 2014 3:54 AM

I got this question a lot, specially after the javascript frameworks start to show up in the enterprise applications, what is better, portlets or widgets? why? -The most obvious different between...

Fady Hakim | Oct 11, 2014 3:45 AM

There is a big difference between Liferay Platform, and any other framework/Web Application. In general, Developers can develop anything, but the question is how long it will take them to do that...

Sami Ekblad | Oct 10, 2014 8:54 AM

Greetings from the Liferay Symposium. The event was great and we have had many good discussions with new and old Vaadin fans over here. And this is no wonder, like you learned earlier Vaadin-based...

Ravi Kumar Gupta | Oct 10, 2014 8:32 AM

Sometimes, Tomcat is not enough to run Liferay- reasons may include performance, client's wish etc. So here are the steps on how to configure Liferay instance on tc server 2.6. Same steps can be...

Sven Werlen | Oct 10, 2014 1:49 AM

During last Liferay North America symposium in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend to Máté's interesting presentation (Best Practices for Using Staging in Liferay 6.2). I have always been...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 8, 2014 11:32 AM

On last entry I made a quick overview over the proposed solution for the "problem" of building an analytics platform within the Liferay platform. Along this entry I will go deeper into the log data...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 7, 2014 1:00 PM

Yesterday I was talking at the Liferay North America symposium here in Boston about how you can get more value of all the data you already (even if you are not aware you already own it). It has...

Bruno Farache | Oct 6, 2014 8:45 PM

Sync Beta 3.0 is out! We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow: ...

Jan Eerdekens | Oct 5, 2014 6:49 PM

Intro A lot of developers will probably know this feeling: you've just returned from a conference and seen lots of exciting new technologies and now you can't wait to try them out! For me one such...

David H Nebinger | Oct 2, 2014 7:33 PM

The Vaadin 7 Control Panel is a custom control panel designed to manage the shared Vaadin environment in Liferay. What is the shared Vaadin environment? It is one of two modes1 for creating Vaadin...

Ken Dong | Oct 2, 2014 2:40 PM

Throughout history, knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to practical use has been of highest value to any organization. As one of the leading trainers on the Liferay Support Team, I...

James Falkner | Oct 2, 2014 7:00 AM

At this year's Spain Symposium and North America Symposium (which begins in about 294,682 seconds from now), I'm going to be holding a session on 21 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Contribute to the...

Pradeep Sharma | Oct 1, 2014 3:20 PM

Hello Liferay Community, Welcome to my first blogs at Liferay Sites. This blog is for the generation of report of Web Content. If you have a web content display portlet and you have enabled the...

Koen van Dillen | Oct 1, 2014 3:04 PM

Yesterday we visited the Rijksmuseum as a guest of KPN and 's Heerenloo. I was presented with their new and very special portal named JiP. JiP is a portal based on Liferay and has a customized...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 30, 2014 7:51 PM

Currently, Liferay has excellent Eclipse support with the Liferay IDE and Liferay Developer Studio. However, as of this writing, Liferay has no official NetBeans plugins or IDE. So what are you to...

Eduardo P. García | Sep 29, 2014 10:15 AM

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on...

Neil Griffin | Sep 27, 2014 1:39 AM

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is...

Angela Wu | Sep 25, 2014 9:00 PM

The fall season is upon us, which means the Liferay Symposium North America is right around the corner! In order to maximize your experience, we suggest coming with a basic list of goals and...

Ken Dong | Sep 24, 2014 11:47 PM

Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the...

Martin Yan | Sep 24, 2014 4:28 PM

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years...

Muhammed Shafeek V | Sep 24, 2014 4:57 AM

Hi, I am not common for you here. So I think I need to explain who am I and why I am here. : Muhammed Shafeek, a Sun Certified java professional having 2 years real time project experience in...

James Falkner | Sep 22, 2014 4:00 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out...

Muhammed Shafeek V | Sep 20, 2014 12:59 PM

Introduction Recently We are deployed our application named TOURFILLA(Travel social networking site, http://www.tourfilla.com ) on AWS EC2 instance. For doing that I refer a plenty of blogs and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Sep 17, 2014 2:54 PM

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Sep 11, 2014 10:30 PM

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier...

Martin Yan | Sep 10, 2014 5:36 PM

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it. So,...

Angela Wu | Sep 8, 2014 9:59 PM

Welcome to Boston Liferay is excited to be in Boston this October for the Liferay Symposium North America. This year’s Back Bay venue captures the historic beauty of Bean Town as well as reflecting...

Máté Thurzó | Sep 8, 2014 8:35 PM

Tomorrow 4pm CEST I'm going to participate in the dev.life event series, and I give you 4 fine reasons to attend, or check out the recording later. You can learn how can you develop staging and...

Mohit Soni | Sep 5, 2014 6:20 AM

In this blog we will configure OpenAM as Identity provider and Liferay as Service Provider using SAML 2.0. Follow below steps : Download OpenAM 11.0.0 war file from...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 2, 2014 1:46 PM

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 29, 2014 9:44 PM

The word is out in Twitter, we have released the first development milestone release of Liferay 7. This is a call for really adventurous developers to try it out and give us your feedback. Here are...

Nate Cavanaugh | Aug 29, 2014 9:34 PM

As many of you may have read, Yahoo is immediately stopping development on the YUI library. This decision, while it will have a significant impact, is not news to us. Given our close relationship...

Matti Tahvonen | Aug 26, 2014 7:51 AM

We were very happy to have received the Liferay Marketplace award for the best Free Opensource portlet for 2014 . This was a huge thing for us not only because Vaadin.com itself uses the Tori forum...

Olaf Kock | Aug 26, 2014 6:15 AM

This article accompanies the dev.life session "Ridiculously simple plugins" hosted today (26. Aug, 16:00 CEST, 14:00 UTC) by me. The session is broadcasted on youtube and recording will be...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 26, 2014 1:45 AM

Life consists of all kinds of experiences. Some experiences are common, and we can go through them every day. Having a tasty meal. Sitting in traffic. Chatting with friends. Watching a good movie....

James Falkner | Aug 25, 2014 5:52 PM

Today Liferay announced the winners of the 2014 Liferay Marketplace App Contest! This year, we were super excited to see what our community could dream up, and you did not disappoint. The review...

Paulo Fernandes | Aug 22, 2014 9:43 PM

Hi guys Most of the time I need to embed a Web Content on the theme that I develop. To solve this I usually insert a Web Content Portlet using the following code: #set ($VOID =...

Scott Lee | Aug 21, 2014 5:40 PM

I've heard that you can do some really cool stuff in Web Content (check out James's and Ray's blogs) but haven't gotten around to tinkering with that myself. Here is a fun little experiment with...

Martin Yan | Aug 19, 2014 11:47 PM

The customer is always right. If you've been around the American marketplace long enough, you should be familiar with the phrase. It's the idea upon which the best restaurants and companies look to...

Olaf Kock | Aug 19, 2014 3:51 PM

Radio Liferay is back with a repeat guest, James Falkner, Liferay's Community Manager. Like last year, symposium season is about to start (even though we already had some events earlier this...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Aug 19, 2014 10:25 AM

I am sure most of you already know we are members of the OSGi Alliance, and we are trying to get involved as much as we can. Our next step is to host a face to face during the 9th, 10th and 11th of...

James Falkner | Aug 14, 2014 3:08 PM

Liferay hold many events throughout the year (10+ this year alone), featuring keynotes, workshops, expert speakers, onsite and offsite events, and multiple venues around the world. The data...

Olaf Kock | Aug 14, 2014 8:41 AM

\o/ Radio Liferay is back. A while ago I talked with Juan Fernandez and Ivica Čardić about an exciting project they're collaborating on: Liferay Cloud Services. "What's this?" you ask? Well, good...

Josiah Harrist | Aug 13, 2014 9:00 PM

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?” -Charlie Brooker, The Guardian Daniel Kaluuya and Jessica Brown Findlay in Channel 4’s Black...

James Min | Aug 12, 2014 11:50 PM

Here's a sneak peek at Liferay Screens Beta in the Xcode environment. Liferay Screens are basically mobile widgets that simplify development of mobile apps with Liferay as the backend. More info...

Adam Brandizzi | Aug 12, 2014 1:54 PM

One of the most important features of the new calendar portlet is the ability of consistently showing events to users in different time zones. It is invaluable for global organizations. If your...

Yogesh Sharma | Aug 12, 2014 8:10 AM

Liferay provides lot customizations formats using preferences, configuration, properties etc. Developer knows and remembers general ways and possible settings, most commons we go with...

Peter Mesotten | Aug 11, 2014 7:01 AM

This article is the second and last in a series of 2 posts on how personalization can be achieved in a portal project. In this post I'll explain how to combine user-specific and shared portlet...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 8, 2014 3:29 PM

This weekend you may notice a couple of small changes to your Liferay.com sign-in experience and I wanted to give you a little background on why we’re making those changes. As we have been...

Brandon Pettit | Aug 8, 2014 1:02 PM

The Liferay Training team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.2 Styling Liferay with Themes course! Liferay Portal 6.2 includes some exciting updates for UI developers. Now that Bootstrap...

Olaf Kock | Aug 8, 2014 8:32 AM

It's public - Registration for DevCon 2014 (Wed-Thu, 5.-6. Nov) is open. And we're looking for your participation to make it an even bigger success. This year we're going to Darmstadt, just south...

Martin Yan | Aug 5, 2014 5:07 PM

As a thought-leadership blog, NOTS is striving to disseminate knowledge and spread out to the masses like a wicked disease. Here we sat down with Liferay Community Manager James Falkner to shoot...

Neil Griffin | Aug 5, 2014 1:18 PM

Today's JSF JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java EE standard technology that enjoys wide support with Java EE application servers including JBoss AS/WildFly, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. In...

Olaf Kock | Aug 5, 2014 8:36 AM

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and...